“I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.” FeelsKindMeanBookCoursesRecordsFootballAccusedThings I LoveLukewarmI Love Football Author:Nick Hornby
“Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.” PeopleWayKindSaidEndsUseFeltExampleFootballFundamentalsBottomAll KindsAgentsManagersPhrasesThe End Of The DayConvinceEstatesSalesmanPrudentEstate Agents Author:Zadie Smith
“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym” IfsKindTwoWould BeSchoolGuyGirlNamesGivenStarsParentMorningMeditationMagicTeamFootballFlowerMomBirthFinalsWork OutCaliforniaGradesGymBusElectricityFrontiersHippieFootball TeamCertificatesLennonOptionalPoppiesBirth CertificateNorthern CaliforniaLennie Author:Jandy Nelson
“If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.” PeopleIfsInspirationalKindDoeStatesYoungLevelsPlayerEffectsFootballBasketballFindingsHighestProfoundRecognitionBasketball PlayerFootball PlayerPedestalAll State Author:Benjamin Carson